Legal foundation: Constitution of the S.R of Vietnam (1992) Trade union Law Labor Law

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2 Basic information: Established on 28/7/1929 National Trade Union Center Vietnam General Confederation of Labour (VGCL) Sector/Industrial 20 Sector/Industrial Local Trade 63 Federation of Labour at City/Province Level Total membership: 8,243,765 (with 4,300,434 women members), accounting for 55% of the workforce Total number of workplace trade unions: 116,675, including 36,293 in non-state own sector

3 Legal foundation: Constitution of the S.R of Vietnam (1992) Trade union Law Labor Law

4 Vietnam General Confederation of Labour National Sector City/ Province FOL Corp. Corp. Corp. District FOL Local Sector Note: Direct guidance; Co-guidance (same level) Coordination in guidance

5 Key functions of the VGCL to represent and protect the lawful and legitimate rights and interests of workers, office employees and other working people to participate in State affairs governance, socio-economic management, and monitoring and oversight of the operations of State agencies and economic organizations to educate and motivate workers to bring into play their right as masters of the country, fulfill their citizens obligations, build and defend the country of Viet Nam.

6 Some facts and figures about organizing & representing workers and collective bargaining

7 Difficulties and challenges Employers hostile policies against workers and trade unions Violations of labour laws by employers are still commonplace Workers educational background and professional skills remains poor and lack of knowledge about labor legislation and trade unions role and functions, especially, the young workers do not want to join the trade unions Limited capacity and skills of trade union officials in mobilizing for membership recruitment

8 CBA density: Year 2008 Year 2009 Year 2010 Year 2011 Year 2012 Year % 60.22% 61.59% 66.99% 65.22% 63.5% - CBAs are mainly signed at workplace level. There have been 9,661 CBAs in force. - Successful signing of the CBA at sectoral level in Textile & Garment and rubber sectors. - However, the quality of the negotiation and CBAs remains poor

9 VGCL s key targets and action plans ( )

10 Recruiting at least 2 million new members (10 millions by 2018) Over 90% of workplaces employing at least 30 workers are unionised. 100% of full-time union officials, at least 70% of the part-time union officials participate in the training, re-training and education on both unionism and skills for trade union works. 100% of the key leaders and women trade union officials participate in trainings on gender equality and integration of gender equality in the trade union activities 100% of state-owned and at least 65% of non-state owned & foreign invested enterprises have CBAs

11 4 action programs The program " Membership development for the period ". The program "Improving the quality and efficiency for the pool of union officials." The program "Improving the quality of negotiation, conclusion and effective implementation of CBAs." The program "Improving the qualifications, professional skills for union members and workers.

12 Job creation for workers is one of the main objectives of the socio-economic development policy of Vietnam, especially in the context of Vietnam s deeper integration into the world economy. Vietnam is one of the first two countries in the world was selected by the International Labour Organization (ILO) to deploy UN s instruments to integrate employment and decent work program. In Vietnam, since 2001 up to now, the DWCP has been developed and implemented, the program has been effectively integrated with other national programs for jobs creation and contributed to economic restructuring, labor structure, provided job training with job creation for many thousands of employees each year. In recent years, along with the achievements of the economy, employment problems of Vietnamese workers have seen encouraging results, annually, jobs were created for 1.5 to 1.7 million workers, reducing the urban unemployment rate to 3.51% in 2014.

13 Thank you